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English Persecution of Catholics

Marys

Question: Forced from the throne of Scotland by her enemies and imprisoned
Answer: Mary Stuart

Question: Daughter of Henry VIII and half-sister of Elizabeth, who succeeded her
Answer: Mary Tudor

Question: Not Catholic, came to the throne with her Dutch husband in the "Glorious Revolution"
Answer: Mary, Daughter of James II

Question: Second wife of James II who fled to France in 1688
Answer: Mary of Modena

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Jameses and Charleses

Question: Succeeded the childless Queen Elizabeth and becomes James I of England
Answer: James VI of Scotland

Question: Killed by order of Oliver Cromwell
Answer: Charles I

Question: Returned from exile to claim English throne; became Catholic
Answer: Charles II

Question: Last Catholic King of England
Answer: James II

Question: Used to be James VI
Answer: James I

Elizabeth's Persecution

Question: What led Queen Elizabeth to persecute the Catholics of England?
Answer: The Pope had excommunicated her, and so she looked at Catholics as traitors

Question: Why were Catholic bishops imprisoned under Elizabeth?
Answer: They refused to take the oath that she required

Question: What city did Catholics form a seminary in the Spanish Low Countries? (Later it was moved to Reims)
Answer: Douay

Question: What did priests who returned to England undergo? 
Answer: torture and martyerdom

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Miscelaneous

Question: War between the supporters of King Charles I and the supporters of Parliament, which was dominated by the Puritans
Answer: English Civil War

Question: Why did Mary Queen of Scots think she could depend on the support and sympathy of the French people?
Answer: She was the widow of Francis II of France

Question: What was a conspiracy by Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament by placing barrels of gunpowder in the cellar?
Answer: Gunpowder plot

Question: During what event did the William, the ruler of Holland, come to England to assume the throne of James II? (He was invited by leaders of Whigs and Tories)
Answer: the "Glorious Revolution"

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